Tarot 2000 Tarocchi : Fred Martin

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Fred Martin - U.S.A. Entered Berkeley in the fall of 1945, intending to major in Decorative Art (I had been told “artists never make a living”). To do so, I had to take the first year architectural history and design, and the first year art studio courses in addition to the first year interior design courses (mostly how to make repeat patterns, etc.). By the fall of 1946, I had decided to major not in Decorative Art but in Art—in those days, that meant I had decided to be a painter. I have studied the pictures of the Major Arcana in the Tarot cards off and on for more than forty years, every once in a while making a group of paintings or prints, one or more for each Tarot picture. In late December 1994, I decided to make another Tarot series, not however representing the images in an identifiable way, but entering instead the feeling of the image as I had come to experience it at that time, and out of that feeling (as a composer makes a melody of his feeling from a poem) painting until an image of my feeling appeared in the paint upon the paper. Most of the 1995 Tarot series were exhibited at the Gallery of the Shanghai College of Fine Arts of Shanghai University in October, 1995, and in the Arts and Consciousness Gallery of John F. Kennedy University in Berkeley in June of 1997. Live and work in U.S.A.

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FRED MARTIN